Glandularia bipinnatifida
Family: Verbenaceae
Plant Description: Annual to 35 cm high with prostrate or reclining-ascending stems, often forming mats. Leaves 1.5-6 cm long, mostly bipinnatifid, opposite. Flowers in headlike clusters, the corolla 6-15 mm wide, lavender, light blue-violet, or violet-purple.
Plant Trivia:
Field Identification:
Occurrence: Common on heavier sands and clay in prairies, openings, and waste places and along roads.
Bloom Period: February-May, occasionally October-December.
Plant Use:
Key to species of Glandularia:
- Flower clusters 1.4 cm or more wide…………………………..G. bipinnatifida
Flower cluster about 1 cm wide……………………………………………………………2
2. Corolla reddish purple…………………………………………………………..G. pumila
Corolla whitish to lavender………………………….G. quadrangulata
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